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Thomas Paine

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Tuesday, March 27, 2012

27 March - Blogs I'm Following III

SEOUL, SOUTH KOREA - NOVEMBER 12: U.S. President Barack Obama (3rd-L), South Korean President Lee Myung-bak (L) and Stephen Harper, Prime Minister of Canada (2nd-L) attend an award for enterprising small and medium size businesses during day two of the 2010 G20 Summit on November 12, 2010 in Seoul, South Korea. World leaders converged on Seoul for the fifth meeting of the G20 group of nations to discuss the global financial system and world economy. South Korea is the first non G-8 country to host the G-20 summit. (Image credit: Getty Images via @daylife)

I imagine the day, probably within twenty years, when Stephen Harper, former prime minister of Canada, will sit in the prisoner's dock to stand trial. Harper and his co-defendants will be tried for crimes...

Current theories of the causes and impact of global warming have been thrown into question by a new study which shows that during medieval times the whole of the planet heated up. It then cooled down nat...

This wasn’t supposed to happen. In Congress drive to clean up its act and pass the “Stock Act” to provide transparency to Wall Street holdings members have, taxpayers are getting stuck with the bill. Sen...

The housing market started off the new year with a thud. Home prices dropped for the fifth consecutive month in January, reaching their lowest point since the end of 2002. The average home sold in that m...

This week prices jumped another six cents, bringing the national average to around $3.90 a gallon. Maryland’s average is even higher at $3.93, inching ever closer to that dreaded $4 mark. “It’s just too...

The debt collector on the other end of the phone gave Oswaldo Campos an ultimatum: Pay $219 a month toward his more than $20,000 in defaulted student loans, or Pioneer Credit Recovery, a contractor with ...

Ottawa (CNN) -- Ontario's top court has legalized brothels, saying Canadian prostitution laws unfairly discriminate against prostitutes and their ability to work in safe environments. A panel of five ju...

My elder brother who died of prostate cancer more than five years ago would have been 57 years old this week had he survived the disease. His diabetes plus emotional sadness when his wife died several mont...

During the current long drawn out Republican primary season-- obviously planned down to the tea by David Plouffe-- a normal reaction would be to wonder, what serious person votes for any of these freaks? ...

The captain of a US airliner was tackled by his own passengers after he ran up and down a packed jet screaming about bombs and al Qaeda. The JetBlue plane, en route from New York's JFK airport to Las Veg...

A magnitude 4.5 earthquake has struck Pakistan at a depth of just 3.7 km (2.3 miles Poorly Constrained), the quake hit at 03:19:22 UTC Wednesday 28th March 2012 The epicenter was 24 km (15 miles) Southwes...

Emergency workers have rescued a man submerged in suffocating mud on a Georgia building site for nearly an hour. Dramatic video showed that when firefighters arrived at the scene in Atlanta they were ba...

A British man has been arrested in Somalia on suspicion of having links with the Islamist militant group Al Shabaab, according to local police and African Union peacekeepers. The suspect was detained at ...

Russian police have arrested two men suspected of cannibalism in two separate cases involving at least seven victims. A suspected serial killer from the town of Penza, some 348 miles (560km) southeast of...

An exclusion zone has been put in place around a North Sea oil and gas well, where a plume of gas was seen rising above the water after a "serious" leak. The potentially explosive natural gas is escaping...

The drought which has hit rivers and groundwater supplies is spreading throughout England, the Environment Agency has said. Swathes of east and south Yorkshire from Chesterfield up to Scarborough are off...

Satellite-operated lasers, not "Armageddon"-style bombs, could deflect asteroids headed for a catastrophic collision with Earth, Scottish scientists believe. Researchers at the University of Strathclyde ...

A magnitude 4.7 earthquake has struck off the East Coast of Honshu, Japan at a depth of 20.5 km (12.7 miles), the quake hit at 01:27:24 UTC Wednesday 28th March 2012 The epicenter was 231 km (143 miles) E...

By Associated Press, Published: March 26 LONDON — Britain’s financial regulator said Monday that it had fined the queen’s bank, Coutts Bank, 8.75 million pounds ($13.8 million) for failing to maintain ...

She’s either a great actress, or this guy should reconsider his marriage vows. Or maybe sue her factory school for spewing out someone this innumerate? What do you think, is she sufficiently pretty to c...

** *Contributor: "YYC"* Have been up to my ears in real life (all good stuff, except for the dentist) and haven't had what it takes to analyze the Snooze. Here are some things, however, that I've recently...

*Only The Dollar Is Falling, Not The Sky.* "There is no such thing as a natural death: nothing that happens to a man is ever natural, since his presence calls the world into question. All men must die:...

* Come April, the magic number of monthly free NYT content clicks drops from 20 to 10. * *by Ken* While working on last night's post, which included links to a pair of Paul Krugman columns along with my re...

I really hate whiny babies. I work with a lot of whiny babies - Oh poor me - I wish I had a... - everybody's always picking on me. Today the American Legislative Exchange Council released a two paragraph ...

There's a scene toward the end in the 1991 classic, *What About Bob?* in which Dr. Leo Monroe has had it with his "patient" Bob Wiley. Bob's followed the doctor to his summer home in New Hampshire and ing...

We're down to the home stretch in the fight to save civilization from the ravages of runaway global warming. A report in *Scientific American*warns we're within just one decade of tipping points that will...

A plane from New York to Las Vegas had to be diverted to Texas after its captain "went nuts" and began yelling about a bomb. The JetBlue flight 191, which had 135 passengers on board, had been airborne fo...

The *poor pilot likes* 'is minister? What is he major, your dad? Between this and the *F-35* and Chinook rigging nonsense, I do wonder if the gold-ringed numpties currently running the RCAF even understand...

[image: image]Why would you want to see a film in which teenagers are forced to fight to the death for a live TV audience? Sounds monstrous, doesn’t it. Perhaps we want to see it however for the same re...

BSoD or Blue Screen of Death"Is there a 'mischievous ghost creator' in the Intelligence Machine ruleset?" On a security level, COMPARTMENTALISATION seems like a really good idea. This way T.H.E.Y. or The H...

A couple of days ago I had an opportunity to sit down for a long chat with a brilliant and enthusiastic young progressive Democrat, Vipin Verma, who's running for Congress in Florida's brand new 6th congr...

At Post Partisan, I talked more about delegate counts, caucus states, and Romney's lock on the nomination. For Greg, I did the old political scientist blogging standby: the "calm down, everyone" post. Thi...

My guess is the NDP will back the budget, at least to the extent of having a couple of members stay out of the voting -- but it will be close and we may be campaigning again in April for a May election.....

[image: image]It’s the Law of Unintended Consequences all over again. NZers rely on a sophisticated second-hand market for imported, used, inexpensive Japanese cars. Government introduced new exhaust emi...

*Unfortunately there are no 'truth in advertising' regulations when it comes to political attack ads. As I post this, Stephen Harper's propaganda-meisters are preparing TV ads that are going to carry the t...

*R. v. D.A*., 2012 ONCA 200 is a good illustration of the need for trial judges to be careful in giving reasons that fully set out the basis for judgment. In *R v. Sheppard* [2002] 1 S.C.R. 86, the Su...

[image: Aerial view of workers involved in cleanup efforts of the Deepwater Horizon oil spill, with oily water around them near the South Pass of the Mississippi River along the Gulf coast near Venice, L...

Well, the story of Trayvon's murder has become a war of the leaks. This latest twist in the law enforcement angle is troubling. The lead homicide investigator in the shooting of unarmed teenager Trayvon ...

With German Pancakes, you typically let the butter melt in the dish before adding the batter, making one large pancake. Did you know you can add the butter to the batter so you can make little baby panca...

* Fat European with a tatoo on his face* *Source: Merah didn't send French attacks video** * Reportedly, the Toulouse shooter made a video of his attacks, and the video was sent to Al-Jazeera, the news ne...

*Wikipedia:* The Hurrian songs are a collection of music inscribed in cuneiform on clay tablets excavated from the Hurrian city of Ugarit which date to approximately 1400 BC. One of these tablets, which i...

A clip from the Lindsay Gary's commentary at the Daily Cougar: . . . Of my graduating class at KIPP, I was one of about 20 black students in a mostly Hispanic population. Being the minority wasn’t easy, an...

Admit I laughed sardonically when I saw George Zimmerman is a registered Democrat. My first thought was, thanks all you wingnuts for defending a member of the party of your imagined evils. Wondered how the...

26th March: The swine flu threat can no longer be brushed aside as minor with the number of cases up to 211, traversing five states and claiming 16 lives. Yesterday Gujrat also reported one case, a 25-year...

Mumbai: Testing times lie ahead for citizens. After a brief interlude for a greater part of last year, Mumbaikars are feeling the chills again, as the dreaded swine flu virus is back to stalk the city. Wh...

JAKARTA, Indonesia (AP) — A 17-year-old has died of bird flu in Indonesia. He is the country's sixth fatality from the virus so far this year. Health ministry spokeswoman Murti Utami said Tuesday the boy ...

Lanzarote and Fuerteventura see their tourism-dependent economy threatened by plans for exploratory wells in Atlantic Plans approved by the Spanish government this month to start prospecting for oil off ...

WILDLIFE medics were last night keeping a close eye on a dolphin which stranded itself on Cromarty beach yesterday. The Scottish SPCA, members of the British Divers Marine Life Rescue and the coastguard ...

A sperm whale became stranded on Snæfellsnes. According to Skúli Alexanderson, a local resident, the whale is easy to get to and several passers-by have gone down to look at it. “You can go up to the whale...

The eurozone needs "the mother of all firewalls" if it is to protect the EU's single currency from debt contagion, the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD) has warned. Angel Gurr...

Begin a neverending nuclear winter with every country whose religion or oil industry doesn't line up with our interests. Make the water you drink unsafer. Make the food you eat unsafer. Make the air you br...

The Gay Secretary The reality here is that *no one in their right mind* in the US State Department, White House, or Pentagon can *possibly* offer the American people* any* honest metric by which "progres...

Britain's largest cemetery is on fire after the "tinder box dry conditions" sparked wildfires. The blaze is raging over 17 acres of the 500-acre Brookwood Cemetery near Woking in Surrey. Around 40 firef...

PARIS – A video apparently showing a Muslim gunman's attacks on soldiers and a Jewish school was sent to the Al-Jazeera news network -- but not by him, French police said Tuesday, raising the specter of a...

*Ghana by Eli Shany אלי שני * Ghana is having elections. *Ghana is doing well. * Its economy is growing at nearly 10 % a year. It has oil, cocoa and gold. The World Bank now describes Ghana as a 'middle-i...

Gobabis — Three workers from Farm Kroonster 448 in the Omaheke Region died in the Gobabis State Hospital last week from an illness related to anthrax. It is suspected that five farm workers of Farm Kroons...

Floods brought by rain over Southern Luzon hit at least three areas in Oriental Mindoro Tuesday, with authorities evacuating at least 20 people to safer ground. Office of the Civil Defense Region IV-B he...

LOUISA, Va. (AP) - Dominion Virginia Power is repairing a leak in a steam generator pipe at its North Anna Nuclear Power Station in central Virginia but the company and the Nuclear Regulatory Commission s...

not happy with chemtrailing our lower atmosphere, NASA are starting a pilot scheme to chemtrails the upper reaches of the atmosphere to calculate the 'higher jetstream''s trajectory. Imagine if more Privat...

Via Kady, from his *committee theatrics* on Anonymous' videos: "I don't believe Members of Parliament should be held hostage," Toews notes, and praises the speaker for upholding the Lamoureux ruling on...

First, I don't buy the criticism John Van Dongen is just trying to keep a job in politics and thinks he would lose as a Liberal in his riding. My experience had been that he is an ethical person and I acce...

Incidents of anti-Semitism are now commonplace in much of Europe; all over Sweden, in Amsterdam & Rotterdam, in Paris, Marseilles & Toulouse and now in Brussels: 'At around 15:40, four individuals of Ara...

TAIPEI, Taiwan — Taiwan’s defense ministry says an air force helicopter has crashed off the island’s southeast coast and five crew members are missing. The ministry says the S70-C chopper disappeared fro...

Guatemalan volcanoes Santiaguito and Fuego increased their activity in the last hours and the authorities recommended on Monday took all the necessary precautions with the surrounding air traffic. The di...

You know, this whole F-35 business is absurd to the point of hilarious. Here's the government and air force trying to buy the most expensive warplane ever, sight pretty much unseen, from a company so full ...

'Workforce Fairness is releasing a series of videos chronicling left-wing intimidation, including showing up at people’s houses to harass them and their families. We’re pleased to debut the first of the ...

SAO PAULO — Four members of the same Brazilian family were killed by a lightning strike during a heavy storm in the Amazon region. Brazil’s national space institute known as Inpe tracks lightning strikes ...

Today our old friend, former Congresswoman Carol Shea Porter (D-NH), will be joining us for a live blogging session at Crooks and Liars at 2pm (ET). Carol's unlikely grassroots victory in 2006 over a Rah...

Reuters) - A cloud of explosive natural gas boiling out of the North Sea from a leak at Total's abandoned Elgin platform forced wider evacuations off the Scottish coast on Tuesday as the French firm w...

A magnitude 3.1 earthquake has struck Northern California at a depth of just 1.1 km (0.7 miles Poorly Constrained), the quake hit at 16:22:00 UTC Tuesday 27th March 2012 The epicenter was 3 km (1.8 miles)...

Syrian President Bashar al Assad has toured a former rebel stronghold devastated by his forces as Damascus accepted a UN-backed deal to end the bloody conflict. Mr Assad was shown around the Baba Amr di...

A magnitude 4.7 earthquake has struck off the East Coast of Honshu, Japan at a depth of 26.2 km (16.3 miles), the quake hit at 13:21:03 UTC Tuesday 27th March 2012 The epicenter was 189 km (117 miles) ESE...

*NATURAL NEWS* has a very disturbing report. The state of Michigan has a thing about pigs: *"Insane Michigan government announces plan to destroy ranch livestock based on hair color and arrest hundreds of...

[This blog is owned and operated by an unemployed, single woman who depends on the kindness of strangers for all its operating costs, not to mention any personal comforts like food and car insurance. Your ...

We were treated to a pair of Alberta election polls last night - both showing the PCs and Wildrose in a statistical tie. Given previous 2012 polls have shown Redford between 5 and 37 points ahead, this co...

*Well over 10,000 computers used in attack on NDP leadership vote "The company that organized the electronic voting system at the NDP leadership convention is now blaming an orchestrated attack involving te...

As the saying goes, a picture is worth 1000 words but sometimes links to news items help a little. Such as this item from Chile in which four men, including the one above, were arrested in connection with...

A rare positive catch. Brendan Nyhan notes that the NYT and reporters Elisabeth Bumiller and Alliison Kopicki do a great job in writing up the latest Times/CBS survey about Afghanistan -- by placing the re...

Periodically, I find very interesting articles that usually do not fit in the overall theme of this blog... But I find to be intriguing enough that I want to share with everyone who reads my material. I c...

Former NAACP leader C.L. Bryant is accusing Jesse Jackson and Al Sharpton of “exploiting” the Trayvon Martin tragedy to “racially divide this country.” “His family should be outraged at the fact that they...

*Brad Wall continues to amaze. His small minded mentality is driving the film industry from the province of Saskatchewan. In spite of rational and logical arguments to the contrary, Wall has decided to kil...

Nakum Journal, an Indigenous Journal is available through Amazon. The first two issues of this journal are available at: http://www.amazon.com/Nakum-Indigenous-Cultures-Institute/dp/1475028822/ref=cm_sw_em...

Trayvon Martin was suspended from school three times in the months before he was shot dead by a neighborhood watchman, it emerged today. The new claims, revealed in a leaked school report, paint a differen...

A 5-year-old girl jumping on a bed was injured by a bullet early Saturday when a gun beneath the mattress went off, police said. The incident occurred at about 12:22 a.m. Saturday at a Marquette Park resi...

A luggage room at one of Logan Airport’s terminals was evacuated Monday morning after a strange odor was detected in a bag. Authorities cleared out the screening room at terminal A, which serves Delta a...

*TUESDAY, MARCH 27, 2012* *We don’t know if it’s true:* Did George Zimmerman tell Sanford police the truth about the events of February 26? We have no way of knowing. But in this morning’s edition, the Or...

*TUESDAY, MARCH 27, 2012* *The Washington Post catches up:* We’re on a semi-reduced work schedule this week due to a matter of national importance. For that reason, we’ll take this occasion to clap oursel...

*TUESDAY, MARCH 27, 2012* *We’d have to say it depends:* In this morning’s New York Times, three journalists report the results of a new survey concerning the health care law. To read the report, click he...

[Enenews]: Atlantic: Japan in Uproar Over Censorship of Emperor’s Anti-Nuclear Speech — “Seemed to suggest that the nuclear crisis is not over” — Left out of all major evening news programs (VIDEO) http:/...

Happy Birthday to Mal Reynolds himself, Nathan Fillion, 41. You know, Castle is reasonably good fun (although I haven't actually seen any of it this season, I don't think, so I have no idea whether it's sl...

Welcome to Change The World Wednesday Daily (#CTWW)! If this is your first visit, please click HERE for information and a complete list of all the challenges we've taken on so far. Here's today's challeng...

Spring has arrived, and with it the natural urge to reconnect with the land. As an Urban-dweller presently trapped in an area which resembles the opening scenes of Monty Python's Meaning of Life, (albeit ...

*March 27, 2012* Washington's relentless pursuit of WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange, and alleged whistle-blower Bradley Manning, is no secret. And for some experts, the US government's high-profile...

The Council of Canadians, representing electors in seven ridings where "irregularities" have been clearly reported, is pushing the voter suppression scandal into *federal court*. A citizen advocacy group...

Empires Then and Now by Dr. Paul Craig Roberts Global Research Canada, March 27, 2012 *Great empires, such as the Roman and British, were extractive. The empires succeeded, because the value of the reso...

*TUESDAY, MARCH 27, 2012* *Part 2—Journalist dons a new hat:* Watching the press corps assemble the facts is often a troubling experience. Yesterday, we considered a factual conflict about George Zimmerma...

Steny Hoyer, the Democratic face of transpartisan political corrupt in the DC Establishment, was in Easton begging voters there to support one of his endangered cronies, Tim Holden. In a lie big enough to...

As I mentioned in yesterday's post I had spent the afternoon down around the Snye. While I had a few errands to attend to I couldn't quite contain my inner child who suggested I cross over the Clearwater w...

Lawrence Martin writes this morning that Canada is about to take a sharp right turn. In the process, several of the country's sacred cows will be sent to the abattoir: If there’s a theme, it’s market e...

*UPDATE # 1 BELOW * The Syrian government has agreed to accept a peace plan proposed by UN and Arab League envoy Kofi Annan, al Jazeera television quoted his spokesman as saying. "The Syrian government ...

(Reuters) - Stuffed into a time capsule, this ancient university town's local newspaper would give future historians a good idea of the pain that Europe's first financial crisis of the century inflicted o...

(Reuters) - President Barack Obama voiced doubt on Tuesday on the prospects for progress with Moscow on missile defense until after the November U.S. election as he staunchly defended remarks caught on ca...

(Reuters) - The Supreme Court confronts the core of President Barack Obama's healthcare law on Tuesday when it hears arguments on whether Congress had the power to require most people in the United States...

(Reuters) - A massive cloud of explosive natural gas boiling out of the North Sea from a leak at Total's abandoned Elgin platform forced wider evacuations off the Scottish coast on Tuesday and an air and ...

(Reuters) - Syria has accepted a ceasefire and peace plan drawn up by U.N. and Arab League special envoy Kofi Annan, his spokesman said on Tuesday, even as Syrian troops thrust into Lebanon to battle rebe...

(Financial Times) -- To listen to many eurozone policymakers, one would imagine all is now well with their two-year long struggle with the sovereign debt crisis. Progress on plans for a beefed-up "firewa...

(CNN) -- President Barack Obama expressed hope Tuesday that the United States and Pakistan can arrive at a "balanced approach" to relations as he met with Pakistani Prime Minister Yousuf Raza Gilani for t...

(CNN) -- North Korea said Tuesday that it would not abandon its plan to carry out a satellite launch next month despite recent warnings from President Barack Obama over the move. The North "will not give...

(CNN) -- The Deepwater Horizon oil spill damaged coral formations deep beneath the surface of the Gulf of Mexico and miles from the ruptured well at the heart of the disaster, researchers reported Monday....

(CNN) -- World leaders are meeting in Seoul this week to discuss how to deal with the threat of nuclear terrorism. The effort to prevent the misuse of nuclear materials and the spread of nuclear weapons ...

Sanford, Florida (CNN) -- That George Zimmerman, a neighborhood watch captain, shot and killed 17-year-old Trayvon Martin is not in dispute. Everything else is -- from the circumstances, to the motivatio...

SEOUL, South Korea (AP) -- President Barack Obama said Tuesday the threat of nuclear weapons remains a potent challenge for the globe to confront, telling foreign leaders that "the security of the world d...

SEOUL, South Korea (AP) -- The leaders of South Korea, the United States and China issued stark warnings Tuesday about the threat of nuclear terrorism during the final day of a nuclear summit that has so ...

TOKYO (Kyodo) -- The operator of the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power plant on Monday found that the water level in the No. 2 reactor's primary containment vessel was only 60 centimeters deep when it check...

SEOUL (Kyodo) -- Japanese Prime Minister Yoshihiko Noda said Tuesday at a global nuclear summit in Seoul that Japan will boost its measures to fight against nuclear terrorism, drawing on lessons from the ...

A Tokyo ward office has apologized for mistakenly announcing major earthquakes via its community wireless system earlier this month although the actual quakes were relatively small. The Bunkyo Ward Offic...

Test decontamination work in the Fukushima Prefecture town of Okuma, where part of the crippled Fukushima No. 1 Nuclear Power Plant is located, has reduced radiation dosages by over 60 percent, the Japan ...

The Federation of Electric Power Companies of Japan (FEPC) had told the government's Nuclear Safety Commission (NSC) in writing that it would oppose any plans to step up preventative measures against nucl...

A magnitude 5.1 earthquake has struck near the East Coast of Honshu, Japan at a depth of 10 km (6.2 miles), the quake hit at 11:02:13 UTC Tuesday 27th March 2012 The epicenter was 40 km (24.8 miles) North...

The Chinese government has said it has "no information" about the death of British businessman Neil Heywood which has been linked to a political scandal engulfing the Communist Party. Mr Heywood was fou...

It could have been America’s answer to the Loch Ness Monster. The corpse of a large, beady-eyed and scaly creature washed ashore on South Carolina’s Folly Beach, much to the shock of locals. But a South ...

Two New York Police Department officers rushed to hospital on Sunday after their patrol car crashed into a lamppost in Brooklyn. The car was sent ploughing into the pole when it was struck in the side by ...

A father has been charged with the murder of his daughter after the baby died as a result of traumatic head injuries. Steven Cantrell, 21, was held on a count of first-degree murder after his child Jada ...

A deadly home explosion today ended a longstanding feud between a man fighting to keep dozens of chickens on his property and loan officers threatening foreclosure. Fifty-three-year-old Andrew Wordes, kn...

The federal government has slowly been demolishing the erstwhile mining town of Pincer, Oklahoma, after decades of aggressive mining left the area one of the most toxic in the nation. In 2009, residents ...

People who support the American Legislative Exchange Council (ALEC) Voter ID Legislation – turned into the proposed constitutional Amendment in Minnesota – state that people who are on Social Security or ...

Venus, Jupiter and the moon have appeared completely visible together at sunset tonight in an already exciting month for stargazers. In what astronomers call a conjunction, the two planets can be seen in ...

A magnitude 6.4 earthquake has struck near the East Coast of Honshu, Japan at a depth of 10 km (6.2 miles), the quake hit at 11:00:45 UTC Tuesday 27th March 2012 The epicenter was 38 km (23.6 miles) North...

Two bodies found in shallow grave near the Rouge River in Detroit are believed to be those of two women who were abducted last month. Armed men kidnapped Ashley Conaway, 22, and Abreeya Brown, 18, in Hamt...

Current theories of the causes and impact of global warming have been thrown into question by a new study which shows that during medieval times the whole of the planet heated up. It then cooled down nat...

Several giant Gambian pouch rats have been found recently on Florida's Grassy Key despite concerted efforts by conservation officials to eradicate them. Officials worry that the voracious rats, which gro...

Caught on an open mic during a photo op with outgoing Russian president Dmitry Medvedev in Seoul, President Barack Obama did something very, very stupid. He got caught committing what is known in Washing...

Shocking: The graphic shows that earnings without Apple have actually been in decline since spring 2011 Apple’s success at selling consumer gadgets has made it the most valuable firm in the world. As a ...

A Smithsonian-associated museum is displaying an item it says is an 'authentic alien artifact' from a 1986 alleged UFO crash in Russia. The National Atomic Testing Museum in Las Vegas unveiled an exhibit ...

A magnitude 4.9 earthquake has struck near the East Coast of Honshu, Japan at a depth of 34.3 km (21.3 miles), the quake hit at 10:22:01 UTC Tuesday 27th March 2012 The epicenter was 89 km (56 miles) Sout...

Syria has accepted Kofi Annan's plan to end the country's bloody conflict, a spokesman for the UN-Arab League envoy has said. "The Syrian government has written to the joint special envoy Kofi Annan acce...

A university student who mocked footballer Fabrice Muamba on Twitter after the Bolton player collapsed has been jailed for 56 days for making racially offensive comments on the site. Liam Stacey, 21, pos...

A magnitude 4.9 earthquake has struck the Eastern New Guinea Region, Papua New Guinea at a depth of 50 km (31 miles), the quake hit at 09:01:41 UTC Tuesday 27th March 2012 The epicenter was 115 km (71 mil...

*They said they were leaving.... * "France ponders early pullout from Afghanistan; 4 troops killed by member of local forces" by Steven Erlanger and Alissa J. Rubin | New York Times, January 21, 2012 P...

In this archived Project Camelot interview from 2008, John Lear talks about many different things; the Living Moon, MJ12, Nibiru, 2012, UFO's and Aliens, etc.. The interview starts off talking about when ...

*In Sweden all girls in Class 5 and 6 were given the option to be vaccinated within Swedish Schools, so I decided to take a poll to see what parents thought about this or if they were willing to have t...

A senior Pentagon official ordered an emergency review of the military's use of an anti-malaria drug known to have severe psychiatric side effects - nine days after the Afghan massacre in which a U.S. sol...

At a meeting with current Russian President Medvedev at a nuclear summit in Seoul, Barack Obama let slip when he thought the microphones were off that: "*This is my last election. After my election I have...

A person has died in a Colorado wildfire that destroyed at least five homes as raging flames sweep across the state. The Jefferson County Sheriff's Department, which hasn't released the victim's name or ...

Soldier: Kevin Corley was recently discharged from the Army after serving in Afghanistan His cousin Jerome was killed in the DEA raid A current and a former U.S. Army soldier were among three men busted i...

A young mother went to tragic desperate lengths to rid herself of the frustration of solo child-care, killing first her son, then herself. Kelli Sly, 23, of Indianola, was angry with her ex-husband for fa...

A church tried to teach its youth group a lesson by staging a raid in which unsuspecting teens were ‘kidnapped’ at gunpoint, forced into a van and made to watch one of their pastors being assaulted in his...

The mother of slain Trayvon Martin recently filed a trademark to protect the rights to his name as an attempt to control- and collect funds from- the masses of merchandise being produced in support of the...

Trayvon Martin was allegedly suspended from school when security officers found what they described as a 'burglary tool' and women’s jewellery in his backpack. But the revelation in a school report obtai...

Asylum seekers from Arab Spring countries and West African nations suffering civil strife surged into Europe last year new figures have revealed. The Brookings Institution, a Washington-based think tank,...

Rescue teams have been forced to step in to save thousands of fish languishing in a rapidly shrinking stretch of water. Under the ambitious plan, the fish are being removed from the six-mile Maxey Cut, w...

The BBC report this morning that: 'Israel has cut working relations with the UN Human Rights Council, officials say, after it decided to investigate Jewish settlements in the West Bank.' I think that som...

A Russian man killed a drinking partner after he and his friends ran out of snacks at a vodka party - then sold the leftovers as pork at a market. The 35-year-old admitted stabbing his fellow drinker, 41,...

A crazed attacker who strapped butcher's knives to his hands and tried to kill three partygoers after lying in wait under a bed has been jailed indefinitely. Steven Shaw pounced while Robyn Little and Da...

Kofi Annan, the United Nations and Arab League envoy to Syria, said today that there is not a deadline for ending the Syrian crisis, but it can't be allowed to drag on indefinitely. Mr Annan told reporte...

A property developer murdered his lover and put her in the front seat of his van to take her away to dispose of the body – only to be caught when he crashed into a hedge near their home, a court heard yes...

Disturbing video footage shot by Toulouse gunman Mohammed Merah as he killed his victims emerged in Paris tonight. TV company Al Jazeera received the horrifying images on a computer memory stick send to ...

Solicitor Graeme Francis (pictured left) and his wife, Clare, have become the target of a mystery man known in the area by the ominous title 'Silent Stalker'. Posted signs showing e-fit photo seem incongr...

A drug that helps the immune system to break down cancerous tumours has been developed. It has worked on breast, bowel, prostate, ovarian, brain, bladder and liver cancers, while previous studies show it...

R2P: Imperial Conquest by Another Name by grtv - March 26, 2012 As the world recovers from one humanitarian peace bombing in Libya, and braces for another possible intervention in Syria, many are now a...

Few people on the bleak Yorkshire council estate that was once home to Karen Matthews failed to spot the irony that it was Mother’s Day when they learned that ‘Britain’s worst mum’ was to be released from...

Dominique Strauss-Kahn was last night charged with ‘complicity in pimping in a vice ring’ – an offence which carries a maximum prison sentence of 20 years. Two judges in Lille spent up to ten hours quest...

A mother-of-six is demanding an NHS weight loss operation, despite admitting she has spent her life binging on junk food. Sara Agintas, tips the scales at a hefty 33 stone, but insists tax payers should ...

*Slave labour.* Mary Norris was a teenage servant in Kerry in Ireland. She took a forbidden night off. As a punishment, she was sent to a Catholic institution, 'the Magdalene laundry', an 'asylum' in Cor...

The crisis hitting Rupert Murdoch's News Corp is spreading as the U.S. Department of Justice monitors alleged hacking at two of the company's European satellite television firms. Two alleged incidents of...

A mass suicide attack which was to target buses in the Afghan capital of Kabul has been foiled. Intelligence officials seized 11 custom made 'suicide jackets' in the country's ministry of defence, less t...

Motorists are being held to ransom by 1,000 militant tanker drivers who yesterday voted for a national strike. The walkout, which threatens to wreck the Easter break, could close nearly 8,000 petrol stat...

Reintroducing predators such as dingoes and tasmanian devils into landscapes may help protect Australia's diminishing biodiversity, researchers say. A new paper to be published in the May edition of Tren...

A magnitude 4.9 earthquake has struck Southeast of the Loyalty Islands at a depth of 10 km (6.2 miles), the quake hit at 07:17:49 UTC Tuesday 27th March 2012 The epicenter was 177 km (109 miles) West of I...

A few blocks from West Colonial Drive in Orlando is a weathered, split-level house that has been in foreclosure since 2007. The longtime owner has lived there for nearly five years without making a paymen...

Despite glimmers of hope in the unemployment statistics and other economic indicators, housing remains in a slump. New Commerce Department data show that new homes sales fell 1.6 percent in February, whic...

Maybe now we know the true purpose for that giant domestic spy complex being built by the NSA in Utah. Attorney General Eric Holder approved a new list of guidelines for how long agencies of the federal ...

When Federal Reserve Chairman Ben Bernanke donned his professorial cap and addressed 30 undergraduate students at George Washington University on Tuesday, he claimed it was all in the interest of transpar...

Emerging market economies of Brazil, Russia, India, China and South Africa, that group themselves as `BRICS' have proposed the creation of a multilateral development bank to coordinate their response to a...

Though, the Iran-Pakistan Pipeline (IP) may have become a tool for Pakistan to gain political mileage, with the US, which is working hard to thwart it covertly or overtly, it cannot be denied that Pakista...

Michigan and Oakland County would get millions of dollars under a judge's ruling Friday that national mortgage giants Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac illegally withheld real estate transfer taxes on foreclosed...

As global companies draw up contingency plans for a Greek exit from the euro, we examine the feasibility of Athens’ departure – from new drachmas to illegality and €1 trillion costs. It’s a tradition of ...

Stay or go? I feel like a Bill Moyers zygote. I have never achieved his serene altruism, not even close. I don't aspire to his higher moral purpose. Yet I've always felt a deep affinity for the man s...

Massive Federal deficits require higher taxes; ever-expanding public debt and higher debt service sets up a death spiral once new investment is crowded out by Federal borrowing. In only three more years ...

Musharraf admits “there is no doubt that Balochistan is the most backward and most deprived province of Pakistan. Successive governments since our independence are responsible for the neglect suffered by ...

(Reuters) - A spruced-up Baghdad is welcoming Arab leaders this week to declare that war is over and Iraq is open for business. To Um Qassim, carrying her shopping beside a rubbish-filled creek four hours...

Zhou Yongkang, a member of China's ruling Politburo Standing Committee (PSC) and head of the country's 1.5 million-strong police force, is the latest and most senior leader to fall in the battle for contr...

(Reuters) - Every Tuesday evening dozens of homeowners who cannot pay their mortgages gather in a cramped community center near Madrid's main bullring to discuss strategy to fight their banks. Newcomers,...

An International Man lives and does business wherever he finds conditions most advantageous, regardless of arbitrary borders. He's diversified globally, with passports from multiple countries, assets in s...

Ben Bernanke’s smiling face on the cover of the April issue of The Atlantic is a testimony to how short America’s collective memory is. While the Fed chief is feted as the savior of the global economy tha...

The head of Dubai police has openly accused the Muslim Brotherhood, the Arab Spring winners, of plotting to overthrow the Arab Gulf monarchies. “The Muslim Brotherhood, the force that has emerged from the...

The final stage of the crisis of the global monetary system is near. It’s the stage where investors realise the finances of the US government are worse than Greece and Italy and the UK. It’s the stage whe...

Another major military exercise is underway in the North, this time in Nunavik. More than 200 reservists arrived in Salluit, Quebec, over the weekend. They're from the 35th Canadian Brigade Group in Queb...

Nearly half of China's wealthiest families are planning to emigrate or are in the process of emigrating, according to a recent report. A survey of the wealthiest private individuals in 2011 carried out by...

New analyses by mortgage giants Freddie Mac and Fannie Mae have added an explosive new dimension to one of the most politically charged debates about the housing crisis: Whether to reduce the amount of mo...

Couples show there are many ways — some easy, others not — to get back on track. The Great Recession is officially over, but for a huge number of Americans, serious debt lives on. U.S. households owe a ...

There have been several recent murders in which the media have vigorously propagated something that seems as unjustifiable prejudices right now. In Toulouse, France, they've been witnesses of shooting...

The “chicken ranch” proposed for Calgary back in 2003 by Danielle Smith, now leader of the Wildrose Party, may not have been exactly as illustrated. (You didn’t seriously think I was going to post a pictu...

[I wrote the bulk of this post very late at night while suffering a bout of insomnia. In the end, I ran out of energy and called it quits. Thus, I've edited the post for the purpose of clarity and style. M...

I'm way behind, and it's time to catch up. Here's what you need to know. Over the winter of 1971-1972, Richard Nixon still looked vulnerable. Things were bending in the right direction for him, but as lat...

March 26, 2012 Al-Awda Al-Awda, The Palestine Right To Return Coalition again appeals to all people of conscience to take immediate action to help save the life of Palestinian female political prisoner Han...

This letter was given to Masha's friends by one of her lawyers, Nikolay Polozov. It was written back when she didn't have an opportunity to pass letters to anyone. She was transferred to a more desnely-...

March 26, 2012 Avtonom At some point last year our wiki, including the prisoner list, got broken, but during last weeks we have recovered it. Starting point is here: http://wiki.avtonom.org/en/index.ph...

March 26, 2012 Ma'an News Agency A woman holds a placard depicting prisoner Hana Shalabi during a rally in support of her hunger strike as well as calling for the release of Palestinian prisoners held in I...

[image: David Lyell is a 13-year veteran LAUSD teacher, and secretary of United Teachers of Los Angeles (UTLA).]By David Lyell First published in the Huffington Post Dear LAUSD School Board Members, Super...

March 23, 2012 | Machetera **I suppose the Latin American term for an apples and oranges comparison is *peras y manzanas.* [Pears and apples.] Somehow it doesn’t have quite the same ring. In Spain, the e...

If Israel's 1981 bombing of Iraqi nuclear facilities teaches us anything, it's that the quickest way to help the Iranians make up their minds is to attack them. On 7 June 1981 a phalanx of Israeli F-16 fi...

The financial institutions overseeing the bailouts are ignoring the domestic impacts of austerity measures. Who is rescued by the bailouts of the European debt crisis? The question won't go away. Last wee...

Mar 22, 2012 By STAN LEHMAN Associated Press SAO PAULO — Grade-school students in a northeastern Brazilian city are using uniforms embedded with locator chips that help alert parents if they're cutting cl...

An annual Easter egg hunt in Colorado was canceled this year. Parents jumped in and helped kids gather chocolate eggs last April, said the sponsors. Organizers of an annual Easter egg hunt attended by hun...

March 24, 2012 Michael Macor / The Chronicle Ronald Bridgeforth, with wife Diane and sister Connie Bridgeforth in November, fled in the '60s. In an emotional and at times tense court hearing, a 67-year-ol...

ST. PETERSBURG, Russia (AP) -- Police in St. Petersburg have detained more than 10 protesters who tried to march down the Russian city's main avenue following an opposition rally. Several hundred people ...

The man's body, pants around his ankles, was discovered by a mourner in Calvary Cemetery Sunday morning; victim not immediately identified. A half-naked man was found dead in a Queens cemetery Sunday morn...

Trayvon Martin's parents Tracy Martin, left, and Sybrina Fulton, at the Million Hoodie March in Union Square, New York, Wednesday, March 21, 2012. Photo from AP / Shakesville.From a lifetime in criminal just...

March 21, 2012 SF BayView* by Mary Ratcliff * Families of prisoners have come out of the shadows since last year’s hunger strikes and taken on much of the work of recruiting the 400 prisoners who signed t...

(Reuters) - Thousands of Tunisian Islamists took to the streets on Sunday to step up their demands for the creation of an Islamic state in one of the most secular Arab nations. About 8,000 conservative S...

After squinting through binoculars into a nation frozen in time, US President Barack Obama reeled off a contempt-laden and startlingly frank indictment of North Korea. The Stalinist remnant of the Cold W...

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